EconomyBloombergPremier Li Keqiang said[9] fiscal funds should be used to redevelop shantytowns and improve basic infrastructure.Businessweek
Service-sector companies are seeing lacklustre business, according to two separate surveys[10] released July 3.Wall Street JournalApple could soon tap[11] the world's biggest pool of potential iPhone buyers: China Mobile's customers.Quartz
93 per cent of US fireworks are made in China[12].

Foreign affairsBrookings Institution
"We don’t object to Chinese espionage, they should not object to ours," says Kenneth Lieberthal[13] ahead of the upcoming US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue next week.The Nation - Pakistan
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's five-day visit on Wednesday is set to tackle security of Chinese in Pakistan, writes columnist S.M.Hali.[14], (India's defence minister leaves for China today[15] in first such visit since 2006)Global Times*Editorial:[16] The final outcome of the overthrow of Egpytian President Mursi is America's call.Asahi ShimbunJapan protests[17] China's new natural gas facility in disputed waters.